---
id: "quote-intelligence-per-watt-metric"
type: "quote"
source_timestamps: ["§ The Incumbent's Energy Playbook", "¶11"]
tags: ["metrics", "management"]
related: ["concept-intelligence-per-watt"]
speaker: "Yinuo Tang and Eric Yanfei Zhao"
speakers: ["Yinuo Tang", "Eric Yanfei Zhao"]
sources: ["futures"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-futures"
originDay: 2
articleStem: "hbr-nm-101-energy-strategy-ai"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/06/your-company-needs-an-energy-strategy-for-ais-next-phase"
sourceTitle: "Your Company Needs an Energy Strategy for AI’s Next Phase"
---
# Intelligence per watt as a management metric

> "The goal is not perfect measurement. It is to make 'intelligence per watt' a management metric, not an invisible engineering variable."

— [[entity-yinuo-tang]] and [[entity-eric-yanfei-zhao]] (§ The Incumbent's Energy Playbook, ¶11)

## Significance
The rationale for [[concept-intelligence-per-watt]] and [[action-make-energy-visible]]: the point of the metric is *managerial attention*, not measurement precision. Perfect accuracy is explicitly disclaimed as the goal.